A note on the Whitehead torsion of a bundle modulo a subbundle
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Abstract:
The purpose of this note is to show how the sum theorem for Whitehead torsion due to K. W. Kwun and R. H. Szczarba, and generalized by L. C. Siebenmann, may be applied to compute the Whitehead torsion of the total space pair of a bundle pair in terms of the Whitehead torsion of the fiber pair and the Euler characteristic of the base.References
- Albrecht Dold, Partitions of unity in the theory of fibrations, Ann. of Math. (2) 78 (1963), 223–255. MR 155330, DOI 10.2307/1970341
- Kyung Whan Kwun and R. H. Szczarba, Product and sum theorems for Whitehead torsion, Ann. of Math. (2) 82 (1965), 183–190. MR 182972, DOI 10.2307/1970568 L. C. Siebenmann, The obstruction to finding a boundary for an open manifold of dimension greater than five, Thesis, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1965.
Additional Information
- © Copyright 1972 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1972), 593-595
- MSC: Primary 57C10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1972-0322882-7
- MathSciNet review: 0322882